Fire season now lasts about two and a half months longer than it did in 1970.

This is very, very troubling because the pace of climate change is now accelerating.

I think that is a real problem that we have got.

For months the massive gas leak at Porter Ranch, California spewed methane from an underground storage facility into the air.

Yet we have seen the Federal regulators out in California just hand this over to the states.

This business about market structure is just powerfully important. That makes this hearing very important.

That the regulations here just are not working that leaks occur, sometimes large and dangerous ones, and that we are not doing enough to fix them.

It was the worst natural gas leak in history, the climate equivalent of the BP oil spill.

How can there be so many?

I want to know what you plan to do about it.

I am very concerned about the lack of information about natural gas leaks because it permits the problem to go on without being fixed.

I want to explore whether this industry self-regulation really works.

It is hard to support building any more of them.

I think something should be done about brokers and dealers who put customers at risk.

It is the Department of Education's job to stand up for students, not for the student loan companies.

We potentially have hundreds of thousands of students who have been cheated here.

I want to remind us that Congress gave the Secretary of Education broad authority to cancel the loans of students who attend colleges that broke the law.

Not only does this jeopardize the students' future, but also puts the taxpayers' investment at risk.

I hope if you are confirmed that you will use that authority to ensure that the students get every dime of relief that they deserve without making them jump through a bunch of unnecessary hoops.

I don't understand why this takes long. This isn't hard, what we're trying to do here.

Millions of Americans are being crushed by student loan debt.

the Department's bank thinks that it is doing such a great job that in 2014 they gave dozens of their own senior officers--those are your Department's employees--bonuses, and some of those bonuses were as high as $75,000.

Our letter asked the Department not to use this new authority until the Department can demonstrate with data that robocalling is in the best interest of student loan borrowers and taxpayers and will not result in abusive debt collection…

We have called multiple times for the FDA rescheduling to Schedule 2.

States like mine are stuck, and that is why Senator Capito and I are introducing bipartisan, bicameral legislation today.